
Photo Essay: Degree Shows
The degree show displays at the University of Karachi and at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, showcase artworks in both tradi [...]

Editorial
Like their first love, artists who have been to an art school never forget the experience of their degree show projects. Working in the studios shared [...]

New Year, New Voices: Editorial
January seems like the perfect time to celebrate innovation and forward thinking in the arts, so we thought it fitting that our first issue of the new [...]

Shahkaar – In Conversation with Sumaya Durrani
As we flock around her right after our final MA Visual Arts First Year Juries and I request some time for an interview as directed by my professor Sir [...]

The Sociological Imaginers
It is most interesting to see an artist develop and mature in an intimate space and share the rare friendship that comes with any art school experienc [...]

Rough Around the Edges
Hanmi Gallery’s exposed brick, uneven floorboards and half painted interior form the perfect setting for Rough Around the Edges. This well organized s [...]

Book Review: Punjab in Painting
Punjab has a long, diverse and discontinued history of painting. From the walls of temples and havelies to the pages of manuscripts and folios; from t [...]

De-Void
Old family albums can be a Pandora’s box of unsuccessfully concealed scandals, barely forgotten heartbreaks and rebuffs, belated conscience awakenings [...]

The Art of Choosing Well
Madiha Sikander
Mahmil Masood Bawany. Untitled. Polythene and thread.
It is interesting how each subsequent thesis show carves an institution’s acce [...]

Amra Ali: Taking a Leap of Faith
HH: The proposal is found in the absence of a project brief. In your curatorial concept you mention that this ‘Leap of Faith’ may be misplaced and mis [...]